SUMMARY: Simulating Network Latency - Revised

From: <sunmgr_at_returntonature.com>
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 22:04:01 EST
Thanks to all those who responded.  I am going to be focusing on reviewing
the Sun Bandwidth Manager software as well as the Linux NistNet as a
solution.


Suns bandwidth manager product will do this..
It works pretty good to:)

http://wwws.sun.com/software/bandwidth/overview/

-Mike

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get yourself a copy of - NistNet (it's free and runs on Linux)
http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet

"it allows an inexpensive PC-based router to emulate numerous complex
performance scenarios, including: tunable packet delay distributions,
congestion and background loss, bandwidth limitation, and packet reordering
/ duplication"

we use a lot and think its great.
-Mark

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you could try changing to half duplex and also bringing down port speed on
one side.  throw traffic to it's interface from another host spray maybe.
-Chris

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You could insert a cisco router inbetween them with QOS/traffic shaping
turned on (or, use a Packeteer for this same purpose.)

Alternately, 250mS is right around what a slow modem would give you.
Consider inserting two linux boxes running PPP over a null modem cable.

Turn the speed down to 19.2K or something dismal and you'll have tons of
latency.
-John

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Look into getting dummynet installed on a BSD system.
-Alan



> Simulating Network Latency
>
> What is the best way to simulate network latency between
> two Solaris 8 machines (1x4500, 1x220) that are on the same
> subnet, running at 100M?  I want to be able to dulplicate
> a problem with an application we use, but I need to create
> latency to do it (250-400ms).
>
> Also, I only have access to the Sun boxes, I don't have admin
> access to the router they are connected to.
>
> Will summarize, pre-thanks for your responses.
>
> Louis
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